Cuts are expected to come in New York, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, North Carolina and Vermont. The union Alliance@IBM also reports 3,300 layoffs abroad, including in Brazil, Argentina, France, and Italy.

Big Blue is sparing some positions in New York state – at least for now. The company cut a deal that would keep 3,100 workers on the job in the Hudson Valley and surrounding areas through the end of 2016. Meanwhile, the company is investing $1 billion in a new Watson unit to be based in New York City, and will spend $1.2 billion to expand its SoftLayer cloud operations. It’s also is adding 500 employees at a state-owned technology center in Buffalo.

IBM acknowledged the cuts, but did not specify the numbers:

IBM continues to rebalance its workforce to meet the changing requirements of its clients and to pioneer new, high-value segments of the IT industry. To that end, IBM is positioning itself to lead in areas such as cloud, analytics, and cognitive computing and investing in these priority areas.

It also noted that it’s continuing to hire, saying, “At any given time, IBM has more than 3,000 job openings in these and other growth areas in the U.S.”

IBM is about to cut “13,000 jobs worldwide” and it “has more than 3,000 job openings”…
It is somehow unclear how many of those 13,000 are eligible for training to that they can fill some of the 3,000 job openings…